If 0-3 spells danger, then 0-4 spells disaster for an NFL team. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Cincinnati Bengals — both with high expectations entering the year — could find themselves in that position after Sunday. Before the season, some might not have expected Minnesota Vikings–Green Bay Packers to arguably be Week 4’s most interesting game.…

Acquiring the best player in a trade is usually the goal. While winners and losers of such transactions aren’t often determined until months and, maybe, years later, that tends to be a good starting point. In the case of the New York Knicks, who, in a blockbuster, Friday night, three-team special acquired Karl-Anthony Towns from…

By Rustin Dodd, Zack Meisel and Andy McCullough When the Tampa Bay Buccaneers snapped a record 26-game losing streak in December 1977, head coach John McKay tried to look on the bright side. “Three or four plane crashes and we’re in the playoffs,” he said. It was hard to blame him. The year before, the…

Having etched her name across the record book during the 2024 WNBA season, Caitlin Clark has been named the league’s Rookie of the Year, league sources told The Athletic on Friday. That Clark won the award came as little surprise considering how prolific her debut season was. Clark broke both the WNBA’s single-season and single-game…

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced that it will appeal against the “no fault or negligence” finding in Jannik Sinner’s anti-doping case, WADA is seeking a “period of ineligibility of one or two years,” in which the world No. 1 tennis player and two-time Grand Slam champion would be barred from competing in the…

Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark didn’t like what she heard from a fan late in the first quarter of Wednesday’s playoff loss at Connecticut and motioned for officials to remove the man from his second-row seat. In the relative blink of an eye, security tapped the person on the shoulder and escorted him to a…

The mania around Cooper Flagg at Duke is here. And it’s not going anywhere anytime soon. Flagg, the Class of 2024’s most-hyped recruit and projected 2025 No. 1 NBA Draft pick, spoke publicly Friday for the first time since starting his career with the Blue Devils. Sporting a “Dream Biggest” Duke T-shirt, the 6-foot-9 freshman…

Usually when I want to unearth my love of baseball, I call my good friend Carlos Jackson. Nobody in my circle of life loves baseball more than him. His dad took him to the 1990 World Series when he was 7 years old. Some days when school ended at Encinal High, he’d make his way…

Arch Manning has played in five college football games for the University of Texas, including one start and four appearances in which the game was well in hand by the time he took the field. For a quarterback who isn’t expected to be a full-time starter until 2025 and won’t be eligible for the NFL…

Off the bat, Jordan Walker seemed to have a read on the sinking liner hit to right field. His first step was quick and his route was direct as he sprinted at the ball. But as he closed in, an all-too-familiar scene unraveled for Walker, the fledgling outfielder who has become the latest young player…